Originally Posted by Cirolle
Originally Posted by Riandor
Originally Posted by Cirolle
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Oh come on, D3 was not a commercial success because of its new art style and corny dialogue.
It was successful in spite of this because old fans were desperate for a new Diablo and there was precious little else out there in the genre, plus the later ability to play on console with 4 -layer couch co-op, the much better expansion and continued updates make it still one of the better games in a niche genre.

I love Diablo, but stylistically and tone wise, d3 is a poor Diablo game, so says pretty much everyone, including blizzard. Plus you can not compare it to the sims?!! That’s like me comparing big sales to bloody fifa

So these things are important and I look forward to seeing how Larian handles BG3.


The 4 million Diablo fans hardly made up for the 20 million plus sold.
I am not a fan of Diablo 3. I did buy it and then hardly played it.

I am having problems with people going overboard and saying things like "Complete failure" or "Disaster"
The game did fine and sold enough copies to be on the top 3 of all times.

However, the "failure" of Diablo 3 was that Blizzard aimed for it to be a cash cow to be milked for many years. The intent was not for it to "just" be a single player game, but to be a "Game as a service". This part never took off and they had invested years into the whole concept.
As a friend pointed out, if they had focused on churning out a Diablo series of games instead, they would have made a lot more money.

I feel that Diablo 4 will be more in style with Diablo 2, but they will most likely push the side cash cow even more this time around.


Here I agree